One study showed that pseudoaddiction can adversely influence pain management, and suggest that more emphasis should be placed on patients' pain and analgesic needs when responding to concern-raising behaviors problems in SCD.

The notion of pseudoaddiction was developed in pain medicine to describe the desperate drug seeking of the undertreated pain patient and to distinguish it from the desperate drug seeking of the addict.

Often, this is a manifestation of pseudoaddiction an attempt to acquire enough medication to reduce intractable pain, from doctors who undermedicate them, usually because of fear of causing addiction or fear of arrest by overzealous law enforcement agents.

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